iPhone: What nobody talks about
At least, I haven’t heard this stuff about the iPhone mentioned anywhere else…
Cool thing that nobody’s talking about: Built-in speakers. No more passing earbuds or plugging into external speakers when I want to share some song or snippet of a podcast with friends and loved ones. Just unplug the mini jack and crank up the volume. Beauty.
Frustrating as heck thing that nobody’s talking about: Audio seek. I really like the iPods’ scroll wheels for finding my place in podcasts and long songs. With the iPods, you can just vary the speed of your scrolling to find a specific point in the file, but there’s no similar function on the iPhone. You can take big jumps with the file pointer, or hold the forward and reverse buttons to scrub the audio, but this is nowhere near as elegant as the controls on a true iPod. Very frustrating.
Interesting. I am also addicted to audio seek for longnow lectures on the origional iPod interface.